CVE-2008-3443

no score yetEPSS 16%

The regular expression engine (regex.c) in Ruby 1.8.5 and earlier, 1.8.6 through 1.8.6-p286, 1.8.7 through 1.8.7-p71, and 1.9 through r18423 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and crash) via multiple long requests to a Ruby socket, related to memory allocation failure, and as demonstrated against Webrick.

EPSS: 16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 96% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-399
Published: 2008-08-14
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

ruby-lang:ruby

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/31430
http://secunia.com/advisories/32165
http://secunia.com/advisories/32219
http://secunia.com/advisories/32371

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